Hook (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: The central California coast
- Principal Characters: Hook, A Japanese farmer
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Fear, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Birds, Hunting or hunters, Guns, Animals, dangerous, Wounds or injuries, Hunger, Starvation
- Locales: California
The Story
As a fledgling hawk, Hook is matter-of-factly pushed from the nest by his parents during one of the recurring droughts common to the semi-arid terrain of the central California coast. Preoccupied with their own survival, his parents abandon him to the sand and brush along the dry river bed. As hunger takes precedence over parental and reproductive urges, the father and mother go their separate ways to course about the dry hillsides looking for prey, leaving their undeveloped fledgling to his fate. Still partially covered with down, lacking flight feathers, thin and...
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